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Egyptian Youth to Clinton: Where Was the Support?

There was a time, not long ago, when America stood by the people of the world trying to achieve peace, freedom and basic human rights for themselves and their families.

We have shed much blood and spent a great deal of treasure to help people all over the world. We haven't always succeeded.

The protesters in Egypt have a legitimate question. What happened to America's long standing support for people trying to achieve peace, freedom and basic human rights?

0bama's virtual silence with respect to the protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Algeria and Jordan speaks for itself. He did the same thing with the Iranian protests.

0bama is just a community organizer from Chicago.The truth of the matter is he has no idea what to do. His "Shake and Bow" foreign policy has been a predictable failure.

Oh save the bull****. The United States engaged in isolationist policies for the 18th and 19th century and then supported dictatorships for most of the 20th. We have never stood by the people of other nations. We've stood by American interest. Period.
 
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This is a very good question.

I would imagine we did little for the very same reason we did nothing over the last thirty years of Mubarak's rule. He was an ally, despite his dictatorial oppressive methodolgy, and he maintained peace with Israel. This question is only interesting because it is being posed to the Obama administration.
 
Oh save the bull****. The United States engaged in isolationist policies for the 18th and 19th century and then supported dictatorships for most of the 20th. We have never stood by the people of other nations. We've stood by American interest. Period.

Pretty much this..../thread.
 
Oh save the bull****. The United States engaged in isolationist policies for the 18th and 19th century and then supported dictatorships for most of the 20th. We have never stood by the people of other nations. We've stood by American interest. Period.

Millions of free people and their descendents around the world, including myself, would disagree.
 
Millions of free people and their descendents around the world, including myself, would disagree.

The issue is not whether the United States has never supported free people Ron :)

The issue we've all had is what you claimed to begin with...

There was a time, not long ago, when America stood by the people of the world trying to achieve peace, freedom and basic human rights for themselves and their families.

Yes sometimes Americans stood by people trying to achieve peace, freedom and human rights.

But not all the time, quite alot of the time during the cold war you did what was convenient to get a country on side...

Ask the descendents who had to live under Pinochet, Mubarak and the kings of Saudi Arabia, if the US has always stood to help free peoples...
 
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